Origin of spinning

Motif

Origin of spinning.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Acquisition of culture. · Acquisition of crafts. · view the constellation · filed as A1453.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 15
Literary Crystallization The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise , Hell 19
Literary Crystallization Faust: A Tragedy , First Part, Scene 15 (Margaret's Room)

Filed across the traditions

Greek Fox 171, *Grote I 163
S. Am. Indian (Chibcha) Kroeber BBAE CXLIII (2) 909.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of cloth-making.

Filed beside it

Origin of weaving Origin of dyeing Origin of leaf-dress Origin of bark-cloth Creator paints on clay models of men clothes that they are to wear Origin of raffia cloth

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